Author: Comberg

For Project 1.3, interpret and translate your reading of one of the stories Calvino’s Invisible Cites. Use new tools (textures, blur, transparency) to represent time, depth, place, memory, etc. Feel free to experiment with the scanner.

How does one create meaning or mood in an abstract design?

More here.

Kiel Mutschelknaus’s animations render typography into a new dimension. Check out his generator here and get lost in all the awesome presets and functions of the environment.

Thanks to Katie Shia in Practicum, my other class….

If you’re interested in contemporary experimental music—something to listen to while designing—you might start with Terry Riley and Brian Eno.

We’re going to try and get over to see this show on Tuesday — check it out as you get into Project 1.3

Persian Garden, 1965-66
Three color lithograph
25 1/2 x 20 (64.8 x 50.8 cm)

See earlier post here.

Read details here.

“I am interested in what is interesting,” Ed Ruscha, artist

How do you evaluate—grade?— art and design work?

The criteria and issues that stand out for me are:

1. skill to describe/articulate and frame a design question or problem verbally, visually or via some other form

2. participation in the studio and contribution to the studio culture

3. ability to transform ideas and rough concepts; to develop, refine, and successfully express or communicate

4. curiosity and willingness to experiment/explore/discover and to distill knowledge from this process

5. mastery of materials and craft in completing project (to the level required)

6. synthesis and aesthetics – create forms and relationships – to put things together with a level of completeness and in an engaging manner appropriate to the project

7.  production of a body of work that demonstrates your design process and  expresses what is interesting about the work by embedding meaning (your point of view, argument, interests, questions) in the work itself

 

Grading and The Problem with Familiarity

Before class Tuesday:
Print a final from Project 1.1 and trim to 10×10″
Print a tabloid set of 6 or more studies – put your name and a phonetic approximation of the sound in the caption area, and turn in printed studies

Final Project Submission:
Upload the two files as PDFs to the Course Folder– remember to flatten and save as Smallest File Size

For studies use the naming protocol: Last name.project1.1.studies.pdf
For final use the naming protocol: Last name.project1.1.final.pdf

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